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Deadwood Dick - Ye Old Tyme Music Hall

Take two handsome stalwart heroes, two beautiful innocent heroines, one black-haired, black moustachioed, black- hearted villain, plus his off-sider, add a judge, a dance hall hostess, an assortment of odd (some very odd) characters and set the play in the "Man Trap Saloon.
BYO FOOD AND DRINK.
Season: November 6 - December 6 - Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays.

Eltham Little Theatre Inc. invites entries for their first ever short play competition, The Ten Minute Quickie. Successful selected plays will be performed at The Eltham Performing Arts Centre Research.
Selected plays will be selected will feature actors from the ELT talent pool and will be directed by fresh, new directors as well as some of the ELT's established favourites.
ELT Inc. invites any budding playwright to submit a play or plays for consideration as there are some great undiscovered literary talents out there.
Entry fee for each play submitted is $10. Deadline for submissions is Friday 12th December 2008. Actors and directors intersted in participating in this evnet please email Paula at the quickie@elthamlittletheatre.org.au

PRIZES

1st Prize of $1000 as decided by the ELT panel of judges.
People's Choice Award of $500 as voted by the audience over 3 nights.

visit www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au
and download a submission form.

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Two and Two Together

Rachel's husband Victor never suspects that she is keeping an association with a young man in the house of her good friend Georgina. Why should he be? He has other things on his mind - in the shape of the said Georgina, who he is meeting secretly while her husband Henry, an actor, is safely occupird in the theatre. The suspicions of the stuttering Neighbourhood Watch warden and of Mrs Capstick the cleaning lady are aroused when they see the comings and goings of the two couples and when Henry returns home unexpectedly they are forced into a riotous whirlwind of intrigue and lies... A decidedly saucy end to 2008.
Season: November 4 - December 6.

2009

Find the Leads

When ex-actress, Rosie Lake, the proprietress of the Delmore Private Hotel, stumbles across the strangulated body of one of her residents, she faints!
When Rose comes to, there is no body and no evidence to prove a crime ever took place. She tries in vain to convince her other lodgers, but with her drinking reputation, it is all taken with a pinch of salt. That is until strange things begin to occur.
Season: March 6 - 21.

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Out of Order

When Richard Willey, a government junior minister plans to spend the night with Jane Worthington, one of the Opposition's typist, things go disastrously wrong in his posh London hotel suit. Add a nosy hotel manager, an ancient waiter, a nervous assistant, and a presumably derad body that's not as dead as he appears and you have all the ingrediants for an hilarious evening of British farce.
Season: November 21 - December 6. Venue: Mt. Eliza Community Centre.
Cabaret seating, BYO drinks and nibbles.

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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar is poised to become emperor of Rome, ending the Republic and putting all of the nation’s power in one man’s hands. When Caesar returns to Rome a successful conqueror, he's revered by all. All, that is, but the aristocracy -- who fear that he's getting a little too big for his britches. Several senators conspire to keep this from happening by killing Caesar, among them his beloved friend Brutus. Unlike the other conspirators, motivated by envy and greed, Brutus only aims to preserve the Republic. So sure is he of the necessity of this deed that he expects Rome to be grateful for his sacrifice of his good friend. Not surprisingly, things don’t turn out that way. Once the event takes place, however, the play has yet another turn to take. The deposers, thinking themselves victorious, become victims of the evils they'd foisted upon the returned ruler.

Although the play is titled Julius Caesar, it is not so much about that character as it is about those who conspired against him: Caius Cassius and Marcus Brutus.

Director Sharon Maine has modernized the play. She has redistributed a character list of nearly 50 into a tight ensemble cast. Not only that but to celebrate Hartwell’s anniversary of it’s inception, the show has an all-female cast!

Everyone, from the leads to the bit players, is convincing; this depth of cast is particularly valuable in Julius Caesar, where Caesar (Maggie Morrison) is the titular character and Brutus (Rachel Negus) serves as the tragic heroine of sorts, but the play remains an ensemble piece. Cast members play off each other, especially Kym Davies as Cassius, and Janeen Sonsie as Casca. Then there is Keziah Gilliam as Mark Anthony, Caesar’s protégé and avenger.

Hartwell Players has managed to create a vital piece of theatre that heralds the past as it embraces modernity.

Season: October 24 - November 8.

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A Song to Sing O!

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria by arrangement with Malvern Theatre presents A Song to Sing O!.

George Grossman created many of the original comedian roles in the Gilbert & Sullivan Operas. Here is a witty and charming musical about his last performance at the Savoy Theatre, London, 1889. He remembers back through all the operas, including HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and now The Yeoman of the Guard. Fully staged highlights from all the operas, with a cast of 16, this is a show not to be missed!
4 performances only! Venue: Malvern Theatre 29a Burke Rd. Malvern East. Season: November 28, 29 at 8.15pm. November 29 at 2.35pm. November 30 at 3pm.

2009

Scotland Road

In the 1990s, a woman is found floating on an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic. When rescued, shae says only one word:'Titanic'. The woman is taken to an expert on the sinking of the liner , who interrogates her for six days. However she is a formidable opponent with her enigmatic references to an unkown place called 'Scotland Road'. As time runs out, the last living survivor of the disaster, a reclusive old lady who has lived in seclusion for 75 years, is brought to test the woman. The tables are turned he woman recalls an earlier cinfrontation with the old Miss Kittle, one that took place on board the fated liner the night it sank. By the play's end, everyone's identity will be in question, qnd the woman's dhared secret is reveaqled.
Season: February 20 - March 7 - 2009.

Chaim's Love Song

Chaim's story is a love song for life. It is one of innocence, tragedy, humanity and ultimately triumph. Through his conversations with a young woman he meets in the park, we learn about people and events that have influenced and shaped Chaim's life.
Season: November 7 - 22.

2009

Moonlight & Magnolias.

This haliarious comedy based on a Hollywood legend, conjectures on what really happened when in 1939 David O Selznick locked himself, together with his director and writer to rework the screenplay of his new film "Gone With The Wind".
Having only five days to come up with a final draft, the three men proceed to act out Margaret Mitchell's epic novle while living on a diet of bananas and peanuts.
Season: February 6 - 21. - 2009

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Not Now Darling

Crouch, a partner in the fur salon business of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch, struggles to keep the business on an even keel despite his partner Bodley's womanizing. bodley tries to secure the affections of his latest would-be mistress by "selling" her husband and expensive mink coat at a reduced price, and the nervous Crouch must consummate the sale. However, the husband decides the bargain coat is the perfect gift for his own mistress. the arrival of suspicious wives, a hysterical romp about the repercussions of attempted infidelity.
Season: October 10 - 25.

Julius Caesar

Around about the Ides of March 2009, STAG is mounting a traditional production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Shakespeare's extraordinary study of Roman ambition and betrayal concentrates on the events keading up to, and the subsequnet aftermath of, the assassination of Julius Caesar by a conspiracy lead by his friend Brutus.
The production will emphasize the action and personal conflicts of its characters.
Season: March 5 - 14.

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